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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Umpire on September 21, 2015, 08:32:01 PM
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I have been to Tesco this morning and they are apparently clearing the decks for a Dorothy Perkins oulet in the store.How the mighty are falling.
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1st nail in their coffin?
I'll bet Jon's out tonight celebrating. ;)
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Weren't Dorothy Perkins in BHS Vicar Lane. Wonder if they have moved out to make way for the food shelves ?
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Don't go getting excited about the Dorothy Perkins clothes chaps it won't suit you ;)
Umpire which Tesco's was that?
Fly yes Dorothy Perkins were in BHS, are you saying they are having a food hall in there?
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The one on the Tesco roundabout Tesco Extra.
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Haven't been in there since the Tesco at Clay Cross was built. Not surprised though as they need to gather in more money. They do their own line of cheaper priced clothes though so not sure how well Perkins clothes will do in there,
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are you saying they are having a food hall in there?
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From the ChesterfieldOnline Facebook group.
Went in BHS a couple of days ago and noticed they are working on a section of the ground floor.
Listening to the radio this morning the boss of BHS said they were going to introduce food sales into the shops.
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Theres several outlets going in there not just DP's.
Apparently the place is a bit of a mess at the mo with lots of building works and stuff being moved round.
The place was a bad idea from day 1. it takes a lot of money but not as much as they hoped. i think they expected to run us out of town.
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As well as DP there will be Evans,Pavers and Burtons and maybe others.
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Yet more shops away from the town centre then :(
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You wouldn't expect them to reduce the number of their lines giving excess floor space and leave it empty, would you? To be honest, it makes no difference to us, we've only been in there once in the last two years to look for something a friend in France wanted. 95% of our own shopping these days is from Aldi or Lidl (did I see that Aldi sales are up 31%?) Tesco and the other 'dinosaur' supermarkets have had their day with their silly club points, vouchers, BOGOFs and fuel offers.
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You wouldn't expect them to reduce the number of their lines giving excess floor space and leave it empty, would you? To be honest, it makes no difference to us, we've only been in there once in the last two years to look for something a friend in France wanted. 95% of our own shopping these days is from Aldi or Lidl (did I see that Aldi sales are up 31%?)
Tesco and the other 'dinosaur' supermarkets have had their day with their silly club points, vouchers, BOGOFs and fuel offers
It seems to be a growing trend now to rent floor space, even my hairdresser does it in her small shop.
As for the Dinosaur supermarkets having had their day - you may well be right there Dave.
What goes around comes around as they say.
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Our little dinosaur is doing quite nicely thank you very much
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I'm beginning to wonder if Tesco really have screwed up this past few years ?
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I think they have Fly - and it cheers me up no end. :)
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T**** got too big too quickly and diversified into areas they shouldn't have in an attempt to 'rule the world'.
The problem regarding their store is they relied on their demographic models and market trends when deciding that this was the right location to build such a store. The problem is the people of Chesterfield don't conform to national trends, never have and probably never will.
But in their defence (bloody hell JR is defending T****) they aren't the only ones. When their new store opened we were told that the profiles indicated that sainsburys would lose £X in sales to them for the first week or so then it would calm down and we would only be down by £Y.
I turned round and said we would indeed be down by £Y initially but after the novelty wore off we would be £Z up on the deal. Guess who was right? The powers that be surprise surprise had to admit we bucked all national trends. When the boss asked me where my prediction came from I told him 40+ years of experience of the people of Chesterfield including 25+ working for them!
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I've also heard that the Tesco Express lease is shortly coming to an end in the precinct - staff are unsure if it's going to be renewed!
From a "staff" reliable source , i.e. what their managers have told them.
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They all have self service tills but none seem to have followed Tesco's (originally Safeway's) idea of the portable scanners.
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We tried it for a while (though not in Chesterfield) but there wasn't the customer take up to justify the cost.